The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.

The given bar chart compares the spending of weekly budgets in families between 1968 and 2018.

Overall

, it is obvious

by contrast

that the highest

expenditure

was on food in both years,

while

the lowest was on fuel and power. As the chart shows, approximately 35% of income was spent on food in 1968, which decreased to 17% in 2018.

By contrast

, there was exactly the same

expenditure

on household goods in 1968 and 2018, at 8%, respectively.

Furthermore

, the

expenditure

on housing increased from 10% to 27%.

Additionally

, families spent the smallest percentage of their budget on fuel and power, at 7% and 4%, respectively.Spending on clothing and footwear was higher in 1968 at 10% compared to 5% in 2018. Turning to personal items, spending was twice as high in 2018 at 9%, compared to 4% in 1968. A significant portion of income in 2018 was spent on leisure, at 22%,

while

it was at around 9% in 1968.

However

,

expenditure

on transport was 8% and 14%, respectively.